Bike dying in wet weather???

**Riding LockedDown** · 8th May 2009, 11:33

ok... Today I was cruising home, about 25km into my journey the bike started 'dying', I was going up a hill so was accelerating moderately and then the throttle just made a real labouring noise and I was getting hardly any throttle at all, but there was still a tiny tiny bit. Bike wasnt cutting out though.

It was raining, so maybe a carb issue? has happened once before on an old bike too...

Well I pulled over and turned it on then off, then drove off again, was still having problems, like just labouring, no power at all. So I stopped again, turned off turned on, then went on my way and it was going fine...

So was it water in the carbs? Is this a common wet weather problem? anything I should do now?

**Riding LockedDown** · 8th May 2009, 11:34

* was on my Hyosung gt250r 2007, with a screaming demon pipe which was making a funny noise when it was labouring.

**Ixion** · 8th May 2009, 11:39

V twin, my guess would be that you lost the front cylinder. It's exposed to all the spray from the front wheel. Wet weather is more problematic on bikes than cars, our electrics have no shielding. Buy an assortment of the spray can dewaterers and sealers and squirt everything that doesn't move.

**vifferman** · 8th May 2009, 12:22

It's fooknhard to diagnose a problem with such a pathetic description, but I think Les the Ixion is correct.
Well, either that, or I'm wrong, and therefore, by association/deduction/ThePowerOfTheInterdweeb, so is Les.
I also think that spraying everything with ~~cat piss~~ silicon won't necessarily help. Y'see, even though Lucas is no longer The Prince of Darkness (he's been relegated to Ponce of Twlightness), he still manages to use water to his advantage. My FahrtSturm used to suffer from this problem (oh how I laughed, communtering in the rain, in very heavy traffic, over the Harbour Coathanger, while it was farting like a FahrtSturm, and bucking like an epileptic homo with a short-circuiting dildo up his arse), but spraying it with ~~Speights~~ and assortment of CRCs, WDs and PhDs made no difference.
Amazingly, (Yes, as a matteroffact I am easily amazed

), the problem was a very minute (so minute as to be a nanosecond) crack in the front plug boot. How the fook moisture ever found its way in there, I dunno. I mean, the crack was embedded in the plug well, it was closed, the engine kept the plug well warm'n-dry, I sprayed it with megalitres of ~~jism~~ spray stuff, yet Lucas continued to manage to make the H2-Oh! molecules find their way in there.
Or summat.
Or not.
It wasn't until I read about another FhartSturmerer who had problems with his bike until he discovered a cracked plug boot, and changed it, that it stopped doing THAT.

So there you are.

**Riding LockedDown** · 8th May 2009, 12:59

lol... well.... that was an interesting read. but cheers i'll have a look for any cracks or anything, i was kinda just wondering if anyone else had the same or similar problem.... Wondering if it just a shitty hyosung problem..

It ran ok for the last ten km home when it started going again, so think it ok to keep using now? Maybe no rain riding until it diagnosed?